Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2012

In the age of Skype, email, cheap telephony and collaboration tools it’s all too easy to sit in your office and connect with people remotely. You need to press the flesh. We’re a couple of months away from closing our 4th fund as has already been reported in the press. Press flesh. It’s Wedneday. Or a Skype.

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Berkonomics

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

And we rightly celebrate each such pairing, often with a mutual press release. Call it a “press release partnership.” Without a plan, these partnerships usually end up merely as press release partnerships, fading into the sunset shortly after announcement. The post Is your strategic partnership just a glorified press release?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 27, 2013

Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable. ” Or, “I sent u an email.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2013

I see it on email even more. ” In it he talked about how he gets daily emails asking for intros to Oprah (he does a lot of work with her) and his advice. When you want press, it will come. And it applies to business relationships & networking as much as it does to remuneration in the workplace. Lots of asking.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

So the only thing that can be driving this all is that Uber has become un-liked for a period of time amongst the press. Clearly the press don’t want to have rich, powerful companies researching their private lives. It’s easy to see why companies like Uber can get mad at the part of the press that can be lazy.

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InfoChachkie

JUNE 23, 2014

Absent a human gatekeeper, you can capture a busy individual''s attention by crafting a compelling and pithy email subject line, voicemail message, Tweet, Quora or Facebook message. Review the company''s press releases, the recipient''s LinkedIn profile, etc. Some people are phone centric, while others reply primarily on email.

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Berkonomics

MAY 23, 2011

All of us are pressed for time, always attempting to balance the overwhelming demands of business with the basic wants and needs of family. Email readers continue here.] Now we get personal. Each of us makes many decisions each day as to where to spend the days’ time.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. And when the press releases and the attaboys wear off it still comes down to real work. If your favorite angel investor is sending you what looks like a form email it likely is. Probably more. Be a non-conformist.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. He’s committed to getting through every email. It’s not because I don’t want to respond to all emails – I do. I get way too many emails – many of them unsolicited.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. What is less understood are the consequences of these changes. How founders get screwed on convertible notes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. Brad Phillips entrepreneur media training meet the press startup' Handling different media formats. Marty Zwilling.

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Eric Greenspan

APRIL 9, 2010

A few months back I got an email from a producer of the show Private Chefs of Beverly Hills which will air on the Food Network this month. Here’s a few links on the show and some recent press: [link]. L-R, clockwise: Daryl Bernstein, Palmer Jackson, Mark Sylvester, John Greathouse, Mike Lewis and Eric Greenspan (cameraguy).

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 16, 2011

You send them update emails. Whatever amount you’re getting out and talking with prospects, customers, employees, recruits, competitors, press, investors, potential investors … it’s never enough. If you wait until you need to fill somebody in a roll you’re losing valuable time as an entrepreneur.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2013

But even if a VC is nasty a rant email back isn’t the right way to channel your frustration. You got your tech press and your parents are proud. You build a team, ship your product, more tech press, more funding. Nothing good ever comes from that – even if you are right. The best revenge for rejection is success.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. If you fold at the first un-returned email what hope to you have as an entrepreneur? There were also press and other senior executives from the sector.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

I recently got an email from a friend who had been approached by a well known VC. He sent me an email asking whether the approach was real and whether he should take it seriously. Here is the email he received (reprinted without names with his permission). Why do VCs send generic outbound emails like this?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 22, 2019

Not so long ago, training to meet the press and television reporters was a realm reserved for top business executives only. These days the media formats range from email, phone, radio, television, to social media. Most entrepreneurs I know admit to a poor first media interaction, and many are still waiting for the instant replay.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

As of press time, The Maverick Angels did not respond to emails asking for comment on the move. In recent years, the Maverick Angels had mostly been focused on running coaching programs and seminars for entrepreneurs. READ MORE>>. maverick angels merger acquisition tech coast'

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 24, 2017

Email readers, continue here…] But “There’s the rub” (the snag) wrote Shakespeare in Hamlet. But the problem was solved, and response times returned to “immediate” for at least this class of customer call. There was no wait, and the quality of response was rated as “excellent” by callers later surveyed.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 25, 2011

You need star power of entrepreneurs surrounded by star power angels & VCs who in turn get tons of press from adoring journalists who are insiders amongst this crowd of tech cognoscenti. For one, the consumer-driven startup world has become immensely hits driven. And this is at the same time that content has become more predictable.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 22, 2010

Not talking to the press is a bit like a politician saying they don’t want to talk to the press because they’d rather save that time for drafting legislation. If you’ve got good ideas for a story – shoot it over to them in an email. Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. I think Robert’s right.

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Berkonomics

AUGUST 14, 2014

Email readers, continue here.] Best possible press: too early to market. A marketing professional or the marketing department certainly can work to obtain good press, appealing to curious journalists and early adapters. In another instance, we introduced the first kiosks for hotel lobby check-in.

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Berkonomics

MARCH 4, 2021

A marketing professional or the marketing department certainly can work to obtain good press, appealing to curious journalists and early adapters. I will readily admit that the half million I spent on the artificial intelligence system that failed generated the greatest positive press we ever had.

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Berkonomics

NOVEMBER 19, 2011

So press this link to go right to that original posting. And thanks for your many comments and emails after last week’s final posting in the first cycle of BERKONOMICS.

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Berkonomics

MAY 24, 2018

Years ago, when I was CEO of my record manufacturing company in Hollywood, I happened to walk around the plant into the press room just as Bobby, one of the employees’ favorite coworkers, was offering stolen merchandise to his fellow pressmen from a bag he was carrying. A story of a CEO’s snap judgment call.

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Berkonomics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

We were the only such facility on the West coast to provide and control the entire process from studio, through finished vinyl record pressings in the same building, therefore able to promise quality control others could only dream about. Email readers, continue here…] . The “clean” work in the front office.

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socalTECH

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave Waldman , CEO and Founder of Los Angeles-based Bccthis (www.Bccthis.com), a startup looking to add additional functionality and private messaging into both corporate emails and Twitter messages. The concept behind Bccthis is sending a private message within a group email and group message.

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socalTECH

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Snapchat''s Evan Spiegel posted a note on Twitter entitled Keeping Secrets , bemoaning the exposure of the company''s business plan due to hacked emails which have been covered by many publications. press to profit from juicy corporate tidbits stolen and released by the hackers.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 25, 2013

This shows itself when people try to do an elevator pitch, send concise, actionable emails or have a quick phone call with you to ask for help. . If I saw their company in the press, heard that they saw somebody at an event that I know, they live in a town where a storm just rolled through – whatever. Less is better, I promise.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Neither ebay nor BeachMint have officially announced details of the site to the press, outside of the email to users. As part of the eBay FashionVault launch, the auction site also is pushing a BeachMint Instant Win sweepstakes, awarding airfare for two to Los Angeles, a one hour fashion makeover, and other prizes.

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socalTECH

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Neither ebay nor BeachMint have officially announced details of the site to the press, outside of the email to users. As part of the eBay FashionVault launch, the auction site also is pushing a BeachMint Instant Win sweepstakes, awarding airfare for two to Los Angeles, a one hour fashion makeover, and other prizes.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

To give visibility to these companies to: Sources of funding (angels / VCs), business development partners, mentors who have themselves built successful companies, the press and potential employees to hire. Or if you need to reach us our email is launchpadla@gmail.com. To show these companies that they can remain in LA.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 25, 2013

Soleil returns emails at 1.30am. She helps write press releases. She runs a mom segment on the Today Show. million Twitter followers. Nearly all probably moms. She won me over at first meeting. She flies from LA to NY every two weeks. She debates manufacturing strategies.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This post was prompted by an email exchange I had with a young entrepreneur. If you have beta customers, new pricing plans, different positioning, more market insights, good press coverage – whatever – these are all signs that the ball is moving forward. It’s a conversation that creeps up from time-to-time.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Do you find yourself too much in email mode? I regularly shut down my email so that I don’t get pop-up alerts when I’m working. My mental model on this is very different than how it has been framed in the press to date so I’m excited to have some downtime to think. How can I play to my strengths?

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Berkonomics

MAY 16, 2013

Record plants were noisy, dirty places, using chemicals I can only imagine now rest somewhere in the ocean, to electroplate the “stampers” and press the records. Email readers, continue here.] Here it is, not so many years later, and the signs are more subtle yet, but the speed of obsolescence is much faster.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 19, 2014

Press Scandal. The day after your board meeting I would recommend you send out an email with a summary of your understanding of the key decisions reached so that it is memorialized. I would have the legal board minutes sent out within a week of the board meeting and ask for unanimous approval via email immediately.

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